The Case Against Sugar

I read this while eating my birthday candy for context. Taubes is a journalist, a journalist who focuses on nutritional science, so I doubt this is his first ride through nutritional studies.

I don't know that he was able to conclusively show that sugar is the cause in a definite correlative association between massive increase of sugar consumption and the western diseases. But it certainly seems like a smoke/fire situation, and honestly when has the last time we trusted corporations to be anything but self-interested unto our early deaths? Certainly the criticism of nutrition research seems to be fair, wrt too short studies and the tendancy to follow the biases rather than the results, especially with industry funding. (Money money moneyyyy)

I would still put more faith in the cause of western diseases being in a collection of factors rather than just sugar as the sole baddie, Occam's Razor aside.